{"id":33226,"date":"2013-01-09T06:46:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33226"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:20:50","slug":"open-letter-to-stanley-mcchrystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33226","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Stanley McChrystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: General Stanley McChrystal (USA Ret)<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg<br \/>\nRe: The Founding Fathers Had It Right<\/p>\n<p>General,<\/p>\n<p>Before I begin &#8211; thanks for your decades of service.<\/p>\n<p>And, truth be hold, this post is less for you than it is for the rafts of liberals who&#8217;ve signed on as famboys this past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>But the founding fathers knew that the military (as an institution, not as individual soldiers) is one of the things we needed to guard <em>against\u00a0<\/em>to preserve our clvil liberties. \u00a0The standing army was every bit as big a boogeyman to the framers as the AR15 is to Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>And just as a cop or a county attorney or a federal prosecutor would love to toss the Fourth Amendment into the scrap heap (to the extent, let&#8217;s be honest, that it hasn&#8217;t \u00a0been), let&#8217;s just say your input is appreciated, but not really needed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not really against type, let&#8217;s just say.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: General Stanley McChrystal (USA Ret) From: Mitch Berg Re: The Founding Fathers Had It Right General, Before I begin &#8211; thanks for your decades of service. And, truth be hold, this post is less for you than it is for the rafts of liberals who&#8217;ve signed on as famboys this past 24 hours. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-33226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33228,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33226\/revisions\/33228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}